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Old and older
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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9:29am February 08 2023
The 569-year-old Gutenberg Bible at the Beinecke Library is always a highlight of Yale tours. But the oldest surviving book printed with movable type now has some much older neighbors: a Japanese woodblock print—and the miniature pagoda built to house it—from 1,250 years ago. The Beinecke says it is the earliest known printed text that can be reliably dated. 
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